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Tweet Hacking Life – the India Way is a presentation I made at Microsoft SCS 2012 in NYC in January. Here’s an introduction by Stuart: In this presentation Dina makes a nice case viewing “hacking” as a generative construct for thinking, and an organizing principle for life … hacking life and living … rather than it being [...]

Tweet Updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina Mind the Gap « Innovation Leadership Network via @johnniemoore – This is a really important point when thinking about public sector innovation. In this context, all the justifications for innovating based on improving profit, [...]

Tweet Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina on Twitter. The Triumph of the Ordinary Cellphone – NYTimes.com | by @anandwrites [via @sunil_abraham] – Reality check – or different cultures of innovation?? CLIP: “Forgotten in the American tumult is a global [...]

Tweet Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina Skype and iPhone 4.0 – Telecoms and Social Networks | @stuarthenshall – CLIP "Unfortunately this means… VoIP on the iPhone is really just a dumb pipe. What’s important is the CallerID. Rich CallerID’s [...]

Tweet Daily updates on what I’m reading Putting people first » AP’s ethnographic studies look for solutions to news and ad “fatigue” – CLIP "The findings are part of a study called “A new model for communication,” released two weeks ago with little fanfare and no press coverage, even by AP’s own reporters (pdf link [...]

Tweet Daily updates on what I’m reading Is Social Media a New Addiction? | Retrevo research shows how Social Media is eating into bedtime [via @billives] – Stuart Henshall had asked Is Your Mobile Changing Your Bedtime a short while ago too – http://www.henshall.com/stuart/2009/12/06/is-your-mobile-changing-your-bedtime/ – CLIP: "What is it about social media that causes people [...]

Tweet Daily updates on what I’m reading The FASTForward Blog » Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Research from Cecile Demailly: Commentary by Bill Ives – CLIP: The report suggests that, “communicating externally about the internal change may help to change the mindsets internally.” This is an interesting idea. Those that have been successful in enterprise 2.0 are [...]

"Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?"
Guy de Maupassant